Remy Bumppo presents FALLEN ANGELS. Playwright Noël Coward penned a 1920s risqué comedy. Coward tells the tale of two couples. When the husbands go away on a golf outing, the wives plot a sexy tryst with a former lover. In Coward’s day, this subject matter must have been scandalous. Ladies having premarital sex. Oh my! Not ...
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EXTENDED Thru Jan 2 “Christmas Dearest” (Hell in a Handbag): The Twisted Genius of David Cerda
Hell in a Handbag presents CHRISTMAS DEAREST. Tired of the same old annual Christmas shows being dusted off and remounted across Chicago? Hell in a Handbag knows the remedy to too much tradition. They are ready to deck your hall, trim your tree and stuff your stocking with bright gaudy lampoon. The twisted genius of David Cerda ...
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Review “It’s a Wonderful Life” (American Blues Theatre): A Favorite Holiday Tradition
American Blues Theater presents IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO. Although I missed it last year, ABT’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE has become one of my favorite holiday traditions. It kicks off the season like putting up lights or listening to Christmas tunes. For fourteen years, ABT has produced the Frank Capra’s classic as a ...
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Review “Angina Pectoris” (ShPIeL-Performing Identity): Oy Vey!
ShPIeL-Performing Identity presents the world premiere of Angina Pectoris. The Israeli Defense Minister desperately needs a heart transplant. The only available heart is from an Arab. Unfortunately, the minister recently passed legislation that Jewish people can only receive organs from Jewish donors. His daughter’s old boyfriend, who is also his cardiologist, wants to operate. His daughter and her ...
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Review “The Lisbon Traviata” (Eclipse Theatre): Sublime!
Eclipse Theatre presents THE LISBON TRAVIATA. I loved this show. Playwright Terrence McNally composed an unsung opera. It has passion and music and obsession and tragedy. It also has humor. McNally drops us into the 1980s New York apartment of Mendy (played by the outstanding JP Pierson). Pierson is playing his latest Maria Callas record acquisition ...
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Review “No More Sad Things” (Sideshow Theatre): Humor Gets Buried and Interrupted
Sideshow Theatre presents a co-world premiere with Boise Contemporary Theatre, NO MORE SAD THINGS. Playwright Hansol Jung debuts a quirky tale about escapism. An Ohio woman, coping with her mother’s debilitating cancer, is plagued with reoccurring frog nightmares. Several states and an ocean away a guy, dealing with a father’s career-altering accident, dreams of watching a ...
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Review “Chapter Two” (Windy City Playhouse): Frothy RomCom!
Windy City Playhouse presents CHAPTER TWO. CHAPTER TWO premiered in 1977. It was Playwright Neil Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason. The semi-autobiographical play focuses on a widower’s struggle between his dead wife and his new love. Throw in a meddling brother and a sexually-frustrated friend and the set-up is pure frothy rom-com. The ...
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Review “Pilgrim’s Progress” (A Red Orchid Theatre): Wacky and Smart!
A Red Orchid Theatre presents the World Premiere of PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. In two words, Playwright Brett Neveu’s tale is wacky and smart! This quirky family Thanksgiving is a charcoal black comedy. Dad is a stage actor. Mom is a psychologist. Son is an earth-poet. And daughter is a pregnant teen. Neveu’s characters are each unique. And ...